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August 30, 2015 By Fr. John A. Peck

Does Everyone Have Equal Access To Things Unseen?

by Fr. Patrick Henry ReardonIt is instructive to reflect on the apparent implausibility---indeed, the scandal---of the biblical claim to a favored position for a particular people within history. How is it possible that any people could be God's chosen people? The claim represents an affront to both … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Reardon, Patrick Fr., Sermon Resources, Theology Tagged With: chosen people, Fr. Patrick Henry Reardon, history, revelation

March 31, 2014 By Fr. John A. Peck

Disaster & Disillusion: History Without The Messiah

by Fr. Patrick Henry Reardon History was not kind to the Jewish people during the century following the trial of Jesus. Just before that trial, Israel’s last prophet wept over Jerusalem and foretold the destruction of its Temple, and within a generation of that prophecy the Holy Land was engulfed … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Biblical Resources, Reardon, Patrick Fr., Sermon Resources, Theology Tagged With: Akiva ben Joseph, Bar Kokhba, history, Masada, messiah, Mishnah, prophecy, Rome

April 28, 2013 By admin

The Historical Development of Holy Week Services In Orthodoxy

The Paschal fast of Holy Week1 is the most ancient part of the Great Fast.2 It is already well attested by the second century, in conjunction with the rites of Christian initiation through baptism. At first spanning one or two days, the fast lengthened to four and then to a full six already by the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: About Preaching Tagged With: development, history, Holy Week, orthodoxy, pascha

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